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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Delivery Lead for the Future State Pharmacy solution. With a Pharmacy network of 71 sites, this project will deliver new systems, integrations, and a rework of business processes from dispensing through inventory management to customer billing.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Strategic Project Manager is responsible for identifying, planning and delivering initiatives to support growth and sustainability.- Planned and managed the redevelopment of the Bionics Institute Strategic Plan, facilitating leadership team workshops and all-staff contribution to the updated Values.- Developed plans for implementation of the Strategic Plan, including monitoring, tracking, and reporting of progress, risks, and issues.- Led the review and streamlining of policies, processes and systems, in Finance, Corporate Governance, and HR, ensuring changes were communicated, trained and embedded.- Managed the HR/Payroll migration to a more secure cloud system meeting time, cost, and quality expectations.- Planned and managed the redevelopment of the Bionics Institute staff intranet using a combination of vendor led development with internal staff taking ownership of the solution and ongoing maintenance. This was done concurrently with planning and managing the successful adoption of M365 applications including Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Power Apps to improve communication and collaboration across the organisation.- Managed the vendor led implementation of the Bionics Institute’s new fundraising CRM system and associated packages for Finance and Grant opportunities within time, cost, and quality parameters, ensuring staff had the training, tools, and support to adapt to the new system and processes.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

As the sole Project Manager in the ICT department, I was responsible for the planning and execution of multiple, concurrent ICT projects to support the goals of delivering excellence in healthcare and supporting and strengthening the team. In a largely unstructured project environment, this role required a hands-on approach to developing appropriate project governance, controls, and stakeholder engagement activities to successfully deliver to objectives and then embedding these controls for future projects by establishing basic templates and project review structures for future ICT projects.- End to End management of the RFP and subsequent implementation project to replace end of life network equipment and to uplift the RCH network architecture. As a 24-hour environment, the implementation activities using a combination of vendor and internal ICT staff required careful planning and sequencing and significant stakeholder engagement to ensure minimal disruption to patient care.- In the reality of lockdown, a planned move from Office 2013 to Office 365 needed to be fast-tracked to enable remote working. - Planned and delivered a rapid rollout of Microsoft Teams and OneDrive to enable remote working and collaboration, embedding MS Teams in daily work practices, and the migration of over 6,000 mailboxes from Exchange 2013 to Exchange Online. - Leveraging the Microsoft Fasttrack offering and Adoption toolkits, managed and delivered the majority of change activities including communications, staff training, and establishing a team of over 220 Office 365 Champions across 100 departments to enable adoption, and to ensure the success of implementation beyond the initial project.

Melbourne, Australia

As the Australia and New Zealand business underwent a restructure to accommodate regional roles, this temporary role provided local IT leadership while also managing the delivery of key IT projects. - Managed the local implementation of MS Dynamics CRM replacing Salesforce.com within required timeline. In a climate of cost constraint and limited resource, worked with the key stakeholders to deliver the local implementation without sacrificing business as usual activity. This was done successfully while managing global and local stakeholder expectations and ensuring a quality outcome for the end users.- Planned and delivered the local implementation of Essity Digital Workplace tools including SharePoint, MS Teams, Skype for Business and One Drive. Established a team of department champions to set the pace and priority for training and adoption, and to maintain momentum beyond the initial local implementation.- Senior Management Team sponsor for an “Improvement Mindset” initiative that sought to empower employees to identify, plan, and execute changes to improve processes, systems and our customers’ experience.- Managed local IT, providing solutions for local issues within an evolving global IT service delivery framework.

Melbourne, Australia

The role of the Senior Project Manager was to lead a cultural shift in the organisation to focus on project prioritisation and improve the project delivery processes. - Implemented a project management framework to provide governance, controls and transparency.- Project managed the on-time delivery of 20 Product Disclosure document updates and delivery of a Significant Events Notice notifying members of product and process changes as part of the transition of Administrators.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for managing the implementation of a new payroll and HR system including updated roles and responsibilities and supporting business processes. - Built the business case and benefits realisation plan to gain Board approval to proceed and provide the means to track and measure success.- Negotiated the vendor contract and service agreement - Managed the project governance activities including regular risk reviews, engagement with the Sponsor and Steering Committee and communication with key project stakeholders.- Led a motivated team of part-time internal staff and vendor consultants to successfully deliver the solution and managed the communications, change management and training aspects to ensure a smooth transition, including correctly migrated data, for the employees.

Melbourne, Australia

The objective of this newly created role was to contribute to Ridley’s financial and operational performance by concurrently delivering projects and providing project management support to the organisation. - Successfully delivered several high value/strategic IT/technology projects (~ $1M). These include: SharePoint (intranet/document management) upgrade and migration, HR Performance and Learning Management System upgrade, Learning Management System implementation, Employee time and attendance system upgrade, and the implementation of vendor managed inventory for dairy customers.- Delivered Program Management support to a company-wide approach to the use of antibiotics in animal feed. This included designing program workstreams and governance to address the risks and benefits of each initiative, interdependencies and the impacts on the overall program if any of the initiatives failed required stage gates. - Developed effective Project Management standards and tools to manage risk and enable more predictable project outcomes. Implemented MS Project Online to incorporate the standards and tools into one system to simplify project approvals, project tracking and reporting.

Melbourne, Australia

Project Manager for the implementation of a new business and governance structure for the organisation, this hands-on role included planning, managing and implementing organisational change and building closer alignment with key external stakeholder organisations.

Responsible for facilitating the delivery of changes to systems, processes or business practices that delivered improvement of customer satisfaction and customer loyalty for AGL Retail Energy. Ensured that the customer experience was considered for all system or business change activities and to provide recommendations backed by solid business cases.

Project Manager for a number of small projects including implementation of a corporate credit card, initiation and analysis phase of company wide CRM project, upgrade of the payroll system. Recovered a number of stalled projects for research and community support functions and recruited appropriate ongoing project managers. In addition, provided business analysis for the Finance function in developing a business activity model and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the finance processes.

Leveraged project management skills and experience to deliver a number of key initiatives including the introduced non-sniffable petrol to Shell branded outlets in the Central Desert region and launching ethanol blended petrol for Shell in Australia. Also successfully presented a business case for ultra-premium fuel for the New Zealand market.The role was responsible for delivering an annual fuel sales volume target of approx. 7 billion litres with an annual operating budget of just under A$15m.

Managed the truck-refuelling network around Australia: analysing the strategic importance of individual sites and their contribution to network profitability. Engaged key stakeholders to determine market entry, development or quit decisions and developed and implemented standardised processes for network assessment and managing projects to exit from non-profitable sites The network delivered an annual net income of A$ 2.8M.

Initially managed a program of work with a total budget of A$10M+ and 50+ project team members across IT, business process improvement and organisational change.The program delivered on time, on budget and in accordance with Shell internal project methodology with no disruption to customer service. On completion of the program, established an ongoing Project Management Office to align the ongoing project portfolio with the organizations goals.

Leading a team of 16 direct reports based in Melbourne, accountable for an operating budget of approximately A$2.3M and the development and delivery of Management Information Systems for Shell across the Asia/Pacific Region.

Project Manager for ERP implementations of varying size and complexity for internal and external clients.Project Manager for Shell Global Desktop Infrastructure Procurement and Maintenance services for the Asia Pacific Region.

Brisbane, Australia

Responsible for project management of IT system implementations for Shell Coal head office and mines. Project Manager for Year 2000 program across IT, Engineering and Procurement. Delivered ahead of time, on budget and with no unanticipated failures.

Provided support to IT Project Managers and managed various small IT projects.